11.   Delegates were encouraged by keynote speaker Roy Wilkins, former NAACP assistant executive secretary, to use their voting power to eliminate segregation.

12.   During the summer, Parliament approved a law that stops Swiss banks from refusing to sell so-called registered shares with special voting powers to foreigners.

13.   For years, the Justice Department has denied preclearance unless the jurisdiction could show that its plan had no discriminatory purpose and would not weaken black voting power.

14.   For years, state and U.S. courts had accepted such districts as an acceptable way to increase minority voting power under the U.S. Voting Rights Act.

15.   Germany wants voting powers in the Council, where national ministers shape common policies, brought into line with population size.

16.   Giving both classes of shares equal voting power allowed Canadian Pacific to complete the sale of its stake without disrupting the share price, Laidlaw spokesman Tag Watson said.

17.   Giving both classes of shares equal voting power allows Canadian Pacific to complete the sale of its stake without disrupting the share price, Laidlaw spokesman Tag Watson said.

18.   He then discusses where women are in terms of the news media, government, business and voting power, and where they are predicted to go.

19.   However most of those shares with enhanced voting powers ended up in the corporate treasuries of Swiss companies, which entrenched managers and further protected them from dissident shareholders.

20.   In addition, she said a program to integrate government housing had the effect of dispersing the Malay minority and therefore diffusing its voting power.